Cardiac disease in pregnancy

Dr. Delphine Natali.— Hanoi French Hospital Viet Nam News ByDr. Delphine Natali* Air pollution is a growing problem in Hà Nội. According to GreenID, during the first trimester of 2018, the average level of air pollution was four times higher than the acceptable levels defined by the WHO. Find out what air pollution is, how it affects your health and how you can protect yourself. What is air pollution? Air is invisible but vital for animals and humans to breathe and plants to grow. Air is a mixture of gases and consists of mainly nitrogen (N2) with 78 per cent and oxygen (O2) with 21 per cent. Air also contains water vapor. Sources of air pollution can be natural (for example, volcanic activity) or due to human activity (such as industry, road traffic, agriculture and residential emission.). There are numerous air pollutants. The most dangerous are sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxyde (CO) and … [Read more...] about Protecting yourself from air pollution

The duration for storage of stem cells and those from umbilical cord blood is up to 18 years. Photo: zing.vn The stored stem cells will be used to treat some 80 condition types, especially some progressive and incurable illnesses, including blood cancer, cardiac diseases, and autism. According to NHOG Director Vu Ba Quyet, many patients have had to go overseas for treatment under the stem cell therapy at a very high cost. Therefore, Doctor Quyet suggested that parents should store their children’s umbilical cord blood stem cells in case they need it for future medical treatments. Assoc. Prof., Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoi, the center’s director, said that to take the minimum necessary number of umbilical cord blood stem cells, the newborn must be at the 36th week of the pregnancy at least and weigh about 2.5 kg. It costs parents nearly VND 25 million to have their children’s stem cells stored at the center in the first year. The storage of the stem cells will cost VND … [Read more...] about Center on umbilical cord blood stem cells set up

HÀ NỘI - Prenatal and postnatal screening has helped reduce the risk of deformities among a majority of newborns, a doctor at Hà Nội Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital has said. As many as 80 per cent of the 40,000 children born in this hospital every year receive pre-birth and post-birth screening for deformities, according to Dr Lê Thanh Thúy, director of the hospital's centre for pre-birth and newborn screening. Currently, the centre can detect 35 different diseases in infants through screening, including cardiac disorders and Sickle Cell Anemia, Thalassemia and other blood disorders. The diseases can be treated if diagnosed in time, Thúy said on Monday, adding that screening was one of the most vital steps in the early diagnosis and treatment of a number of serious children's diseases. Launched two years ago with the aim of reducing the number of babies born with congenital defects, the centre was one of the country's first health care units to provide prenatal and postnatal … [Read more...] about Screening reduces child deformities in Hà Nội

HCM City needs VND2 trillion for flood control projects this year
The Steering Center for Flood Control of HCMC (SCFC) has said the city will need at least VND2 trillion (US$89.8 million) to fund flood control projects this year.
The center said that of the 56 projects planned for dealing with flood-prone streets in the city, a dozen projects would get underway this year and three would be completed by 2017. Eight projects were completed in 2015.
Projects expected to reduce flooding at hotspots in the rainy season last year included a drainage system for Do Xuan Hop Street in District 9, improvement of a drainage system for the Kinh Duong Vuong Street section from Phu Lam to An Lac Roundabout, dredging Dong Tien Canal in District 12, the first phase of a drainage system improvement and pollution reduction project for Tham Luong-Ben Cat-Rach Nuoc Len Canal.
SCFC said dredging of a drainage channel from Tan Son Nhat airport to Nguyen Kiem Street, construction of a drainage system … [Read more...] about Social News 12/5